words and pics by Slim
Route : Rainbrow Bridge – Canal Towpath – Lyme Park entry via Lyme Rd – traverse to East gate – Road to Bowstones Gate – Almost Sponds Trig Point but not quite – Butty’s Stone – Beaver Creek – Pott Shrigley – Poache
Crew : Butty, TJ, PTD, 3Sheds, Mr I & Slim & (by LP gate) Dunc
In da pub: Alex, Kersh and (a rare sighting of the lesser spotted) El Pud
Stats : Half a bottle of Laphroag, an export quality pork pie, 8 chorizo sausage roils , two dozen deer ……
Notes :
A few choice ingredients for a perfect evening
a continuing Indian summer
a northerly route out along the canal (more picturesque than the Middlewood Way)
a west – east traverse of Lyme Park as dusk progresses
a brief gathering at “Butty’s stone” to celebrate another birthday for TJ with the (now customary) Chorizo s/rolls, a “docker” of a pork pie, & Colmans . Washed down with a fine malt
an enthusastic descent of “beavers creek” . It was so named, according to the WNB’s , by their historic leader “Baron Geoff”.
a welcome return to The Poachers where Peroni , Kwak and Leffe flowed liberally
